What books, CDs, DVDs or
gadgets do you hope to receive for the holidays, and what will you be buying as
gifts?

Tom WernerChairman
Boston Red Sox

For the holidays I hope to receive:A Kindle DX, with wireless
subscriptions to The Boston Globe and the New York Post, so I can
feel loved and hated in the same gadget.

A copy of “Going Rogue,” the new
Manny Ramirez autobiography.

For the holidays I hope to give:
A congratulatory holiday Bundt cake to the Yankees, who
now have half as many world championships as we do in this century!

Chris WagnerExecutive
Vice President &
Co-Founder
NeuLion

I like the new Apple
17-inch MacBook Pro … man, what a great new gadget. I also plan on giving the
new “Planet Earth” DVD series as a gift and love to get any books about Winston
Churchill. Does anyone still buy CDs? And can someone buy me the wireless music
Sonos system?

Chris DeyPresident
New York Islanders

I hope to receive a
Modern Meyerhoffer surfboard for Christmas. It’s a very radical design
innovation in longboarding. If I’m lucky, I’ll get to take it out in the waves
on Christmas morning in Hawaii.

Rob TillissFounder
& CEO
Inner Circle Sports

I have a Kindle and iPod,
so I download all my books and music. So no gift there, really. On the gadget
side, I am into gadgets, so I am looking at the HP DreamScreen 100 Internet
Touchscreen, the new LG LED HDTV, and the Flo TV personal television. In terms
of getting gifts, I will probably get folks the new iPod with video.

Vada ManagerPresident & CEO
Manager Global Consulting Group

One of the pitfalls of
being an “early adopter” on the gadget side is that sometimes the items wear
out faster and/or evolve quickly with better features. Therefore, given the
still weak economy, this will hopefully be a “replacement gadget holiday”: a
new TiVo HD XL to replace the Humax TiVo DVD that was so excellent at burning
DVDs the past few years. Luckily, sale prices are abundant.

My wife is hinting at a
new laptop to replace her aging HP — not sure if she’ll be a Mac or PC for
2010!

The kids will receive
some new Xbox 360 games and other items. Since we resisted the early Kindle
craze, we may try the Nook, the new digital reader that holds up to 1,500 books
that also shares e-books with other smart gadgets … there’s that early adopter
instinct at work again!

I will be buying: Based
on the amount of time I’ve been traveling, a lot of jewelry.

John WalkerSenior
Vice President, Business
Development
Phoenix Suns

Hoping to receive: A portable DVD player and headphones.

I will be buying: With
two daughters — clothes, clothes and more clothes.

Ken SolomonChairman & CEO
Tennis Channel

Hoping to receive:
Andre Agassi’s “Open.”
The holidays came early this year. Andre sent me a copy and I read it cover to
cover the next day. People should reserve judgment and read this amazing
personal retrospective.

“Last Lion: The Fall and
Rise of Ted Kennedy.” Our country might be a little further along the path of
recovery if he were still with us.

And somehow making my new
Apple TV, LED TV, HD DVR, Slingbox and Netflix all talk to each other. The new
LED TVs are as much of a watershed moment in home imaging as plasma was to the
tube. You can reach out and touch the fuzz on a rotating tennis ball as it
cleans the red clay from the baseline.

I plan to buy my wife the
latest Flip HD or a Boxee box … not at all because those are what I’m hoping to
receive.

Jim TannerPartner
Williams & Connolly

I wouldn’t mind getting a
Kindle or a Nook; I see people with them on planes and they always intrigue me.
I’d also like to get an iTouch. We use BlackBerrys at the firm, but I would
really like to take advantage of the iTouch apps. Lastly, I’d like to read Roy
Williams’ new book, “Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court. A
Memoir by Roy Williams.”

I’m a last-minute
shopper, so I have no idea what I’ll be buying for other people (other than my
kids). I’m excited to buy “DJ Hero” for my kids. We have been playing “Guitar
Hero” (a gift last Christmas) all year and are really excited about playing “DJ
Hero.”

Daryl MoreyGeneral
Manager
Houston Rockets

Buying: “Book of
Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy,” by
Bill Simmons

Hoping to get: NBA Live
Wii

Matt HigginsExecutive Vice President, Business Operations
New York Jets

Hoping to receive:
Flip Ultra HD Digital
Camcorder

Bluetooth wireless
headphones

Any unnecessary running
gear or gadget

Books: “Open,”
“SuperFreakonomics” and “Too Big to Fail”

CD: “Born to Run”

Planning to give:
A Kindle

A Peter Potty Urinal (it
actually flushes!)

“Never Smile at a Monkey”
(for my daughter)

“365 Tao: Daily
Meditations”

Tonya
AntonucciCommissioner
Women’s Professional Soccer

Planning to buy as gifts:
3G iPhone, the new Capitol release of The Beatles anthology and jcrew.com stuff